The all-nighters are over—what a relief! Students in the jewelry programs of AJF member schools have finished their coursework and installed their final exhibitions. Congratulations! Faculty identified one outstanding grad or undergrad from their current class You’ll see their best work in the photo essay below Keep a close eye on the trajectories of these […]
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![“It is my strong opinion that we need to treasure [lives] once lived and make the most of what we harvest,” states Hellman. “I strive to give my refined material the voice to convey that and let my hands provide wordless jewelry with a language.” | Caption: Marianne Hellman, Can You Hear Me?, necklace in the fat-tanned interior of moose ears, silver, thread, photo: Hanna Klintskär](https://artjewelryforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Can-you-hear-me-800x600-1.jpg)
The all-nighters are over! Students in the jewelry programs of AJF member schools have finished their coursework for the year and installed their exhibitions—hurrah! We asked faculty to identify one outstanding grad from their current class You’ll see their best work in this photo essay Congratulations to the students who were selected! These significant new
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The Society of North American Goldsmiths honored Sharon Church (1948–2022) with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 An American Craft Council Fellow, she taught in the Craft + Material Studies department of the School of Art, The University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, PA Her jewelry often contained carved bone and wood in forms inspired
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How do you measure a person’s size? Maybe in the echo that stays behind when an actor has left the stage? Kadri’s echo is loud, as is only possible with an extremely talented, passionate, and hard-working performer. As a dedicated and fearless creative nature, Kadri had a talent that pulsated until her last
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“You have to live your life in [such] a way that if you collapse then everyone believes it has happened due to the ultimate feeling of happiness.” This sentence is quoted on the website of HOP gallerii in Tallinn, where in September 2022 Kadri Mälk produced a two-day installation. The quote, from tragi-comedian Ervin Abel,
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Anton Cepka was among the earliest makers of contemporary author jewelry In 1990 he founded the Metal and Jewelry Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava The Slovak artist made not only jewelry, but also sculptures and kinetic structures Sad news reached the world of jewelry makers at the end of
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Summer has started, and jewelry students around the globe are frantically finishing their coursework and installing end-of-year exhibitions—or maybe relaxing after finishing a challenging semester! For this photo essay, we asked professors from AJF member schools to identify one outstanding grad or undergrad from their class. Here, we present their work. (This opportunity to show
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Karin Jones is a multidisciplinary artist whose recent work examines the ways in which historical narratives shape our identities. The Canadian graduated from the jewelry art and design department at Vancouver Community College in 1993 and now serves as the department head of the program. She received her MFA from NSCAD University. Her work has been
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Bifei Cao won the 2018 AJF Artist Award and went on to teach at the School of Art and Design, Guangdong University of Technology, in China. We asked him to collaborate with us on this photo essay, which provides a peek into his recent book, Chinese Contemporary Jewelry Design. Cao provided spreads from his 320-page
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Summer has started, and jewelry students around the globe are frantically finishing up their coursework and installing their end-of-year exhibitions. In this photo essay, we show work by one grad or undergrad from AJF member schools identified by their professors as outstanding in their class. (This opportunity to show off student work is one of
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